My understanding of the "sensory pathway" is that its a linear, directional pipeline as follows:
Nerves (fire various signals depending on the type of sensors they are)
Fibers (transmit signals from ...

When I touch my hand on a hot stove, I feel pain. I'm interested in knowing all the main "endpoints" (components/parts of the body) that are involved in relaying this pain signal. As I understand it ...

According to this excellent answer, the difference between "pain" and "pins and needles" (neuropathy) is that different receptors (sensory nerves) trigger in reaction to different stimuli.
Different ...

Every time we speak, sing, or make any other kind of advanced noise with our throats, we exhale, or to put it that way, blow air through our throats. Why is this required? After all, speakers do not ...

And vice versa, do the left-handed people tend to use the left side teeth of their jaw to chew food more often than the right-handed people?Or the frequency of food chewing distribute fairly to both ...

Can it be that the adult eye can change color? Specifically my question is about a unilateral color change, such that the color of one eye remains constant, while the other changes color over time. ...

E. coli lives in lower intestine. But exactly where can we find E. coli, and where is there none (or a really small amount) of it?
I need the exact names of parts of the lower intestine where we can ...

I read on this question What is in the space between neurons in a brain? that there is actually not much empty space in a brain. But my question is slightly different. Is there a visual demonstration ...

I've found multiple sources claiming that damage or impairment as a result of alcohol to the vermis of the cerebellum results in speech impairment. I find this a bit surprising, since the only areas I ...

From what I know, the main function of red blood cells is hemoglobin transport. So, why do we need cells packed with hemoglobin: why can't it travel freely in the bloodstream?
My own thoughts were:
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A bunch of stuff in the human nervous system decussates. Optical information inputs from the eyes cross over in the optical chiasm. Multiple sensory and motor pathways cross-over before ascending the ...

I have seen on a youtube video that the female body produces antigenes and antibodies when she is pregnant with a boy. But this behaviour is not produced when she is pregnant with a girl. These means ...

Ok, this is a bit of a tangent question, but it came up yesterday and I didn't know the answer:
How are arms and legs defined physiologically? For example, we say humans have two arms and two legs, ...

We hear talk of different body types, and that it is more difficult for certain people to lose weight than others. On the other hand, when my physician recommends that I lose weight, they say that it ...

Which part of the brain is the first place (from top to bottom) where all 31 pairs of spinal nerves (on each side) meet? Or if they all start at one place - where is that?
Nominally, the beginning of ...

More or less we humans are around 1.70 meters tall.
My question is, would it be possible to scale us? that is, is it in principle possible having humans 1 cm tall, or 10 meters tall or is there some ...

According to Charles Darwin, as the surrounding environment changes, so changes the anatomy or morphology of a specific organism.
But nowadays, humans have become very advanced in the technology and ...

People in different countries have different average heights. For example, Wikipedia's article on human height states that Australian men have an average height of 177.8 cm, and Australian women 163.8 ...

i asked this to my anatomy teacher and he said there is no difference but when it comes to specialy in body building when you say to flex their bicep they freeze their upper limb in order to do that ...